It really is magic - be part of it

You couldn't go wrong if you aspired to be more like Tom White and Amie Nay and their friends.

You couldn't go wrong if you aspired to be more like Tom White and Amie Nay and their friends.

It's unclear how Tom, Amie and others in town make ends meet, since they seem to spend the majority of their time volunteering to help others. Right now they're part of an effort called "Build It for Robin's Children." As you can learn from the article on Page One today, Robin's children are the children of Robin Daggett, who died last fall, just five months after the death of her husband. She was 35 years old and left behind a two-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son. The children are now living with their Aunt Darlene (Robin's sister) and Uncle Frank Millette and their four children in a house on Sproat Street that was not designed for a family of eight. So Tom White, volunteer extraordinaire, established Build It for Robin's Children and began commandeering friends, neighbors, colleagues in the building trades and others to literally raise the roof on the Millettes' home and build a second-floor addition.

Meanwhile, Amie Nay was enlisting other volunteers and planning the logistics of the effort including food and drink for what turned out to be an awesome crew.

Others joined along the way, and last Saturday morning more than 30 workers descended upon the task. By the end of the weekend they had framed up the addition and begun making plans for another weekend of work, this Saturday and Sunday.

Everyone says that one of the great things about living in a small town is that people will come together to help a neighbor in need. But until you've seen this happen you can't really comprehend the powerful and amazing force of a group set on doing good works. There's really nothing quite like it.

To be part of this particular act of magic, you can show up at 50 Sproat St. beginning around 7 a.m. Saturday through 5 p.m. Sunday. You can contact Tom White at 508-728-7103 or twirish@verizon.net to help out, or get in touch with Susan Willis Silva through her Facebook page about helping with food. Or if you want to help but you're tied up this weekend, monetary donations can be made at any Rockland Trust branch in person or by mail. Make checks payable to: Build it for Robin's Children, 135 S. Main St.,

Middleboro MA 02346. Or you can donate with PayPal on the project website, builditforrobinschidren.com.